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Best Books for Children

From the book by Anita Silvey. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. The books are arranged in order of intended audience:

Books 1-5 [board books]: birth to age 2
Books 6-33 [picture books]: ages 2 to 8
Books 34-37 [books for beginning readers]: ages 5 to 7
Books 38-51 [books for young readers]: ages 7-9
Books 52-88 [books for middle readers]: ages 8-11
Books 89-100 [books for older readers]: ages 11-12

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1. Goodnight Moon, 60th Anniversary Edition
by Margaret Wise Brown
  
2. Mr. Gumpy's Outing
by John Burningham
  
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
  
4. Freight Train/Tren de carga  
5. The Carrot Seed: Lub Noob Zaub Ntug Hauv Paug Dlaaj/Lub Noob Zaub Ntug Hauv Paus Daj
by Ruth Krauss
  
6.
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 Miss Nelson Is Missing
by Harry Allard
  
7.
?
 Madeline
by Ludwig Bemelmans
  
8. The Snowman
by Raymond Briggs
  
9. Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
by SSI/HMI
  
10. Millions of Cats (Gift Edition) (Picture Puffin Books)
by Wanda Gag
  
11.
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 Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
by kevin Henkes
  
12. Swamp Angel
by Anne Isaacs
  
13.
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 Snowy Day
by Ezra Jack Keats
  
14. Leo the Late Bloomer
by Robert Kraus
  
15. Story of Ferdinand, The
by Munro Leaf
  
16. John Henry (Picture Puffins)
by Julius Lester
  
17. Swimmy.
by Leo Lionni
  
18. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Aladdin Picture Books)
by Bill Martin Jr.
  
19. Snowflake Bentley (Caldecott Medal Book)
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
  
20. Make Way for Ducklings (Picture Puffins)
by Robert McCloskey
  
21. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (The World of Beatrix Potter: Peter Rabbit)
by Beatrix Potter
  
22.
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 Officer Buckle and Gloria
by Peggy Rathmann
  
23.
?
 Curious George
by H. A. Rey
  
24. The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!
by Jon Scieszka
  
25. Where the Wild Things Are  
26. Caps for Sale Big Book (Reading Rainbow Book)  
27.
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 Doctor De Soto
by William Steig
  
28. The Polar Express Twentieth Anniversary Edition
by Chris Van Allsburg
  
29. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
by Judith Viorst
  
30. Tuesday
by David Wiesner
  
31. A Chair for my Mother: lb Lub Rooj Rua Kuv Nam/lb Lub Rooj Rau Kuv Niam
by Vera B. Williams
  
32. Seven Blind Mice (Reading Railroad)  
33. Harry the Dirty Dog Board Book
by Gene Zion
  
34. Frog and Toad Are Friends Book and Tape (I Can Read Book 2)  
35. Little Bear Boxed Set: Little Bear / Father Bear Comes Home / Little Bear's Visit
by Else Holmelund Minarik
  
36. Henry and Mudge: The First Book (Henry & Mudge)
by Cynthia Rylant
  
37. The Cat in the Hat and Other Dr. Seuss Favorites (Unabridged)
by Dr. Seuss
  
38. Ramona the Pest
by Beverly Cleary
  
39. Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
by Eleanor Coerr
  
40.
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 Morning Girl
by Michael Dorris
  
41. The Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes
  
42. My Father's Dragon (My Father's Dragon Trilogy (Paperback))
by Ruth Stiles Gannett
  
43. Stone Fox. (Ab 12 J.).
by John Reynolds Gardiner
  
44.
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 SNOW-WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS, A Tale from the Brothers Grimm.
by Randall (Brothers Grimm) Jarrell
  
45. Misty of Chincoteague
by Marguerite Henry
  
46. Babe: The Gallant Pig (Babe)
by Dick King-Smith
  
47. Betsy-Tacy
by Maud Hart Lovelace
  
48. Sarah, Plain and Tall
by Patricia MacLachlan
  
49.
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 The New Kid on the Block
by Jack Prelutsky
  
50. Grandfather's Journey (Caldecott Medal Book)
by Allen Say
  
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